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Overview of the SEO Check
Meta information
90% 
Page quality
81% 
Page structure
100% 
Link structure
48% 
Server
99% 
External factors
100% 
SEO Score
Response time
0.41 s
File size
68.20 kB
Words
592
Media files
12
Number of links
25 internal / 40 external

Task list of SEO Improvements

Meta specifications

Title
(Critically important)
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
The length of the page title is perfect. (409 pixels out of 580 max pixel length)
There are no duplicate words in the title
Meta description
(Critically important)
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
The length of the meta description is perfect. (634 pixels out of 1000 max pixel length)
Crawlability
(Critically important)
There are no problems in accessing the website.
Canonical URL
(Important)
https://journals.sagepub.com/
There is more than one canonical link on this page.
Language
(Somewhat important)
Language detected in text: en
Language defined in HTML: en
Server location: Canada
The following language is defined by HTML: en
Alternate/Hreflang Links
(Somewhat important)
There are no alternate links specified on this page.
Other meta tags
(Somewhat important)
There is no rel next meta tag on this page.
There is no rel prev meta tag on this page.
Domain
(Somewhat important)
This page is hosted on a subdomain. Use a top level domain for better SEO results.
The domain does not contain non-latin characters.
Page URL
(Somewhat important)
No parameters were found in the URL.
No session ID was found in the URL.
The URL does not have too many subdirectories.
Charset encoding
(Somewhat important)
The charset encoding (UTF-8) is set correctly.
Doctype
(Nice to have)
The doctype HTML 5 is set correctly.
The doctype is placed at first in the HTML code.
Favicon
(Nice to have)
The favicon is linked correctly.

Meta tags

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Page quality

Content
(Critically important)
Words from the H1 heading are not used in the page content.
This page contains 592 words. That's ok.
15.4% of the text are stop words.
Keywords used in the page title are also used in the page content. That's good!
The page contains a listing, which indicates a good text layout.
4 paragraphs were found on this page.
No placeholders texts or images were found.
There are no duplicates on the site.
The average number of words per sentence of 15.6 words is good.
Frames
(Critically important)
This page does not use a frameset.
Mobile optimization
(Somewhat important)
A viewport "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" is provided.
At least one Apple touch icon is specified.
Bold and strong tags
(Somewhat important)
The usage of strong and bold tags is perfect. We recommend the use of up to 12 tags for this page.
Image SEO
(Somewhat important)
7 images have no alt attribute. The content of alt attributes is used by search engines.
Social Networks
(Nice to have)
This page is optimized perfectly for social networks.
Additional markup
(Nice to have)
No additional page markup was found.
HTTPS
(Somewhat important)
This website uses HTTPS to protect privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
All included files are also transferred via HTTPS.

Media list

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Page structure

H1 heading
(Critically important)
Discover world-class research
The H1 heading is perfect.
Headings
(Important)
The heading structure is perfect.

Heading structure

Heading levelContent
H1 Discover world-class research
H2 Browse journals by discipline
H2 Sage Open Access
H2 You might be interested in
H2 Also from Sage
H2 About
H2 Information for
H2 Keep up to date
H3 IOS Press journals have moved to Sage
H3 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
H3 Independence with Impact Report 2024
H3 Sage Journals profile
Some internal links have dynamic parameters. All internal URLs, which are not marked as nofollow, should not contain dynamic parameters.
Some anchor texts are used more than once.
The number of internal links is ok.
None of the anchor texts is too long.
There are too many external links (40) on this page.

Found links on this page

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https://journals.sagepub.com/Anchor Skip to main content
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/action/registrationSubdomain Create profile
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https://journals.sagepub.com/Nofollow Anchor Close Drawer MenuOpen Drawer MenuMenu
/gold-open-access-journalsExplore Gold Open Access Journals
/disciplinesView Discipline Hubs
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Authors
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Editors
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Librarians
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Researchers
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Reviewers
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Societies & Partners
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Frequently asked questions
https://advertising.sagepub.com/New window External Subdomain Advertising & Promotion
/search/advancedAdvanced search
/action/showPublications?Categ...Health Sciences
/action/showPublications?Categ...Life & Biomedical Sciences
/action/showPublications?Categ...Materials Sciences & Engineering
/action/showPublications?Categ...Social Sciences & Humanities
/action/showPublicationsAll Sage Journals
/disciplinesExplore Discipline Hubs
/gold-open-access-journalsText duplicate Explore Gold Open Access Journals
https://www.sagepub.com/open-a...New window External Subdomain Learn More opens in new tab
/ios-press-infoSubdomain View more information
https://www.sagepub.com/sage-j...New window External Subdomain Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Pledge for Sage Journals opens in new tab
https://www.sagepub.com/explor...New window External Subdomain Sage digital resources opens in new tab
https://www.sagepub.com/our-im...External Subdomain Find Out More
/action/showLogin?uri=/Sign In/Create Profile
https://library.cqpress.com/in...New window External Subdomain CQ Library Elevating debateopens in new tab
https://www.data-planet.com/?u...New window External Subdomain Sage Data Uncovering insightopens in new tab
https://sk.sagepub.com/cases?u...New window External Subdomain Sage Business Cases Shaping futuresopens in new tab
https://classroom.sagepub.com/...New window External Subdomain Sage Campus Unleashing potentialopens in new tab
https://sk.sagepub.com/?utm_so...New window External Subdomain Sage Knowledge Multimedia learning resourcesopens in new tab
https://methods.sagepub.com/?u...New window External Subdomain Sage Research Methods Supercharging researchopens in new tab
https://sk.sagepub.com/video?u...New window External Subdomain Sage Video Streaming knowledgeopens in new tab
https://www.technologyfromsage...New window External Subdomain Technology from Sage Library digital servicesopens in new tab
https://sagepub.com/journalsNew window External About Sage Journals
/page/help/accessibilityAccessibility guide
https://www.sagepub.com/journa...New window External Subdomain Historical content
https://sagepub.com/journals/a...New window External Advertising disclaimer
https://sagepub.com/journals-p...New window External Permissions
/page/policies/terms-of-useTerms of use
/disciplinesSage discipline hubs
/opportunities/micrositesSage microsites
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https://sagepub.com/journal-ed...New window External Text duplicate Editors
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Librarians
https://sagepub.com/advertisin...New window External Promoters / Advertisers
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Researchers
https://sagepub.com/journal-re...New window External Text duplicate Reviewers
/page/resources/societiesSocieties
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Text duplicate Frequently asked questions
https://www.facebook.com/SageP...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Facebook
https://twitter.com/SAGEJournalsNew window External IMG-ALT Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/compa...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Linkedin
https://www.instagram.com/sage...New window External Subdomain IMG-ALT Instagram
https://group.sagepub.com/aboutNew window External Subdomain About Sage
https://journalssolutions.sage...New window External Subdomain Contact us
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/n...New window External Subdomain CCPA - Do not sell my personal information
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/n...New window External Subdomain CCPA
https://sagepub.com/privacy-po...New window External Privacy Policy

Server configuration

HTTP redirects
(Critically important)
This page redirects to "https://journals.sagepub.com/"
HTTP header
(Important)
No X-Powered HTTP header is sent.
The web server transmits the web page (HTML) in compressed form.
Performance
(Somewhat important)
The page response time of 0.41 seconds is longer than the recommended limit of 0.4 seconds. A high response time unnecessarily slows down search engine crawling and results in bad user experience as well.
The file size of the HTML document is fine (68 kB).

HTTP Response Header

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External factors

This page is referenced by wikipedia.
This website has excellent links from other websites.
This page has backlinks from 2,384 referring domains.
This page has 91,711 backlinks.
This page has backlinks from 1,892 different ip addresses.

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Robots.txt

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